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Another project I have been working on is for the infamous Dragon Con in Atlanta, over Labor Day weekend. The project is a Dilophosaurus from the movie Jurassic Park. My husband and a few friends have been researching a few generic characters on THE big Jurassic Park fan website, Jurassic Park Legacy,so I think we will look pretty sharp. Steve and I will be veterenarians,and I will be carrying a very ill-tempered young dinosaur. 🙂

This video is so informative, yet so silly I had to share it.The only way to explain it is to post its description:

How to make the Sign of the Cross? Episcopal priest, the Rev. Matthew Moretz, presents a feature on the Sign of the Cross, a Christian prayer tool that goes all the way back to the early church. Father Matthew is assisted by his friend Tyrannosaurus Regina. “Father Matthew Presents” is a series that presents the treasures of Christianity one video at a time. http://www.fathermatthewpresents.com

About halfway through this clip of behind-the-scenes shots of the hit program Walking with Dinosaurs are shots of many of the puppet heads used in production.The most detailed action involves a mother Tyrannosaurs bringing meat to her young and showing the baby that the food is good!

Reptilicus is a Danish movie, so I’ve slipped you a fast one, here. I really like the design of the monster, which also goes against the Kaiju norm of big, bulky costumes. Reptilicus is brought to life–if you can call it life–by means of a wired marionette.

The movie was produced by American International Pictures and Saga Studios, and is upon close examination two distinctly different films helmed by two different directors.The original version, which was shot in Danish was directed by Danish director Poul Bang, was released in Denmark on February 25, 1961.The American version, which was in English with a nearly identical cast, was directed by the film’s American producer-director Sidney W. Pink; this version was initially deemed virtually unreleasable by American International Pictures and had to be extensively reworked by the film’s Danish-American screenwriter, Ib Melchior, before being finally released in America in 1962.

In Reptilicus, miners in the tundras of Lapland discover a frozen chunk of a tail belonging to some unknown prehistoric creature. The specimen is taken to an aquarium in Copenhagen, the resident scientist gets more than he bargained for when the tail regenerates into a giant, acid spitting monster that terrorizes the countryside. Reptilicus, as the monster is dubbed, has nearly impenetrable armored skin,can shoot acid from its mouth, and can fly. The Danish military attempts to hunt down the seemingly unstoppable monster and destroy it. Finally,with the help of ingenious scientists, they kill the creature with poison,but its foot is not destroyed and ends up on the bottom of the sea. Due to the monster’s regenerative abilities,the movie is left open-ended, because of the possibility that the foot could grow into another creature.